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The idea of Vikings using fire arrows to set funeral boats ablaze is seen frequently in popular culture. But did it really happen?

In this interview, Professor Brian Thom from the University of Victoria introduces us to the historic E&N Railway land grant, what it means for today, and how maps and ideas of property can inform our understanding of the great land grab. Visit TheGreatLandGrab.ca to learn more about the exhibit now travelling Vancouver Island. Dr. Brian Thom’s research investigates the critical intersections of Indigenous legal orders, governance, and land rights with colonial state power, focusing on the dynamics of knowledge, culture, and place. His award-winning, community-engaged scholarship, conducted in close collaboration with Indigenous communities in Coast Salish territories, integrates ethnographic, archaeological, and applied policy research approaches to support Indigenous self-determination, advance reconciliation, and foster transformative public understanding. Chapters: 0:00-3:00 Introduction 3:01-6:03 Conflict and the E&N Railway grant 6:04-11:22 Who benefits? 11:23-15:06 What can we do? 15:07-18:37 Maps and the land grab 18:38-22:47 The legal system 22:48-27:55 BC Treaty process 27:56-29:15 Cultural sites on private lands 29:16-35:20 What is property? 35:21-37:43 What's next?

Treaty talks have sparked numerous lawsuits, complaints over how overlapping territory has been handled.

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The Conversation's Curious Kids · Episode

<p>Neanderthals and modern humans lived in the same caves, hunted the same animals, and made nearly identical tools, so why did only one species survive? April Nowell explains what new excavations in ...

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

19th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past. June 23-25, 2027 in Victoria, BC, Canada.

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"It's a kind of real-world experience to serve as a writer-in-residence," writing department chair Lee Henderson said.

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic traditions even without overlapping at the site...

Drawing on diverse disciplines and ways of knowing, CIFAR panel proposes new approaches to understanding the Arctic’s future   A new report released today by […]

Drawing on diverse disciplines and ways of knowing, CIFAR panel proposes new approaches to understanding the Arctic’s future   A new report released today by […]

To study accumulative stone throwing among wild chimpanzees, researchers hike deep into the savanna-woodland of Boé — a habitat increasingly threatened by industrial mining.

To study accumulative stone throwing among wild chimpanzees, researchers hike deep into the savanna-woodland of Boé — a habitat increasingly threatened by industrial mining.